617 sensor with 261 MP from Red

[AJSJones]

Red's new announcements

28,000 x 9,334 pixels (of 6 micron size) at up to 25 fps (for just the right capture

$tart $saving but keep your LF lenses

They do have smaller ones too...

[Gordon Moat]

Definitely not light weight, though quite interesting. I'm not so sure about the electronic viewfinder either, though I have used those often on video cameras without trouble. Obviously none of this is high volume, though it is nice to see some competition in the market. The trickle down effect of the technology will be what us mere mortals (without Hollywood budgets) will have to wait for in the future.

Ciao!

Gordon Moat Photography

[drew.saunders]

Of somewhat more "practical" consideration is that they're doing a 56x42mm "645" full frame 65MP unit for a mere $45K, which, should it ever exist, increases the probability of a c. 100MP 6x7cm unit that might be of interest to LF digital shooters.

Now, off to buy a lottery ticket...

Drew

[vinny]

For those of you who don't know, RED is owned and operated by the guy who created Oakley, the sunglass company. I haven't heard anything great about the cameras he's got out now. Maybe they'll get better.......let's hope not!

[Daniel_Buck]

I haven't heard anything great about the cameras he's got out now.

Agreed. After all the hype, most of what I hear is problems.

[Jeffrey Sipress]

In five years, we'll all own one of these. Probably around $5K.

[Bob Salomon]

You all probably missed this at Photokina:

Technorama 612 digital

The picture gate 8000 production2 production is the fastest scanback of the world. The new adapter is for Technorama 612 lenses: a high end panorama scan back camera for outdoor activities.

– Max. optical resolution 8.000 x 13.000 Pixel
– Color depth 48 bit Max. file size 595 MB with 48 Bit RGB
– Max. scan speed 29 Seconds for a fullscan with max. resolution

[Gordon Moat]

Hi Bob, is that the Seitz scanpack?

Personally I would find 6x12 more useful, and one could always crop slightly to match proportion of longer panoramic views. One other issue of really large imaging chips is the file sizes, because the computing requirements become greater. I could see four to six shots being processed on a laptop draining the battery in under an hour.

A couple interesting considerations for the future: there have been rumors of greatly improved chip making allowing greater yields on larger area chips. The implication is greatly reduced costs in the future, though it also makes even larger chips viable. While I don't know if that would mean a 4x5 (9x12) chip, I could imagine a true 6x7cm chip, and quite likely as a nice rental unit for those not wanting to dump vast amounts of cash into an expendable.

Ciao!

Gordon Moat Photography

[Ivan J. Eberle]

Wow, what a difference a mere decade of technical progress makes.

Twenty-five frames per second at 261 MegaPIXELS (which frame each have gotta be close to a gigabyte, pre-crunching, right?) versus one frame at 595 megabytes, once in twenty-nine seconds.

(The RED is a digital-capture motion picture camera for any who've might've missed that point.)

[Bob Salomon]

Hi Bob, is that the Seitz scanpack?

Personally I would find 6x12 more useful, and one could always crop slightly to match proportion of longer panoramic views. One other issue of really large imaging chips is the file sizes, because the computing requirements become greater. I could see four to six shots being processed on a laptop draining the battery in under an hour.



Gordon Moat Photography

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